In a recession hit period, where companies are downsizing to overcome the crisis, Indian software major Infosys plans to hire about 1,000 people in the US within a year and a half. Infosys Chief Executive, Kris Gopalakrishnan while attending Microsoft's CEO summit held in Seattle this week announced that the company is planning to add more than 100 employees as a part of a big US expansion in anticipation to the growth resuming in 2010. Overall, the company wants to hire nearly 1000 people across US.

Everytime you attach an add-on to your Firefox you need to restart the browser. It's a sheer waste of time and a test of your patience. What if you could do the same without a restart? Mozilla has sort out the problem with the launched of Jetpack API. It allows the developers to create add-ons that could be added without restarting the browser. Jetpack developers will be able to use HTML, CSS and javascript to develop the new add-ons. According to Mozilla the features of Jetpack can be written in less than dozen lines of code. Jetpack will be an extrapolation in using Web technologies to boost up the browsers performance, especially for those want to build websites to make the Web a better place to work, communicate and play.

It was dote on to see Google Chrome 2.0 dropping its beta tag. Surprisingly, Chrome was in beta for just three months whereas the Gmail launched four years back is still in its beta.  It's semantics that rules Google. There are a number of new features included in the Chrome 2.0 version. Google developed over its Chrome 2.0 beta released in January to get the refined version. Google Chrome basically a bowser that scores on its speed and simplicity. Chrome 1 version was a total unfit for a browser lacking rudimentary features of a browser like auto-fill, a full-screen mode, and extensions, evolved at this age.  Chrome 2.0 has moved a little ahead adding features like full-screen mode, form auto-fill, and that the thumbnails are not visible in the New Tab page. Apart from these, the browser comes with a host of bug fixes and overall performance improvement. However, the new Chrome acts almost like the previous version that wouldn't even provide the hint of changes if not pointed out.

One of the top antivirus featured in our list of top 5 Free Antivirus software, Panda Internet security has a reputation of annihilating most nefarious Internet threats. Panda Security has released the free Panda Internet Security 2009 that provides complete internet security solution with protection against cyber-threats like viruses, malware, hackers, spyware, rootkits, online fraud, identify thefts and more. As a part of joint effort for Microsoft’s IT security campaign Protect Your PC, Redmond company has collaborated with Panda Security to offer 3 months of free service for users against malicious threats.

Better late than never, Apple sans Steve Jobs is breaking new ground with it's plans to introduce tablet-based devices early next year. Apple is all set to bridge the gap between iPod touch and Macbook at a price of $500-$700. This was evident from an report by Gene Munster's (Research analyst) in Piper Jaffray, who cleared the air over the release. A close look at Munster's analysis reveal Apple's move towards the new tablet device.